Judges on judging : views from the bench /

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Other Authors: O'Brien, David M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington DC : SAGE/CQ Press, 2017
Edition:Fifth edition
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt.1. Judicial review and American politics: historical and political perspectives. The doctrine of judicial review: Mr. Marshall, Mr. Jefferson, and Mr. Marbury / Warren E Burger
  • The Supreme Court in the American system of government / Robert H. Jackson
  • Pt.2. The dynamics of the judicial process. The "fight" theory versus the "truth" theory / Jerome Frank
  • The adversary judge: the experience of the trial judge / Marvin E. Frankel
  • The business of the U.S. district courts / D. Brock Hornby
  • What I ate for breakfast and other mysteries of judicial decision making / Alex Kozinski
  • Whose federal judiciary is it anyway? / Stephen Reinhardt
  • What really goes on at the Supreme Court / Lewis F. Powell Jr.
  • The Supreme Court's conference / William H. Rehnquist
  • Deciding what to decide: the docket and the rule of four / John Paul Stevens
  • The role of oral argument / John M. Harlan II
  • The dissent: a safegaurd of democracy / William O. Douglas
  • Pt.3. The judiciary and the constitution. Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States / Joseph Story
  • The path of law / Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
  • The judge as a legislator / Benjamin N. Cardozo
  • The notion of a living constitution / William H. Renquist
  • A relativistic constitution / William Wayne Justice
  • The jurisprudence of judicial restraint: a return to the moorings / J. Clifford Wallace
  • Tradition and morality in constitutional law / Robert H. Bork
  • What am I, a potted plant? The case against strict constitutionalism / Richard A. Posner
  • Originalism: the lesser evil / Antonin Scalia
  • Judging / Clarence Thomas
  • The Constitution: a living document / Thurgood Marshall
  • The Constitution of the United States: contemporary ratification / William J. Brennan Jr.
  • Originalism and history / John Paul Stevens
  • On constitutional interpretation / David H. Souter
  • Speaking in a judicial voice: reflections on Roe v. Wade / Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • Our democratic constitution / Stephen G. Breyer
  • Against constitutional theory / Richard A. Posner
  • Pt.4. Our dual constitutional system: the Bill of Rights and the states. The Bill of Rights / Hugo L. Black
  • Guardians of our liberties: state courts no less than federal / William J. Brennan Jr.
  • First things first: rediscovering the states' Bill of Rights / Hans A. Linde
  • What does and does not ail state constitutional law / Jeffrey S. Sutton
  • State courts at the dawn of a new century: common law courts reading statutes and constitutions / Judith S. Kaye